Thursday, March 7, 2019

The Euroskeptic Ideology: Inherently Exogenous to the E.U.

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At the root of the matter of Britain's secession from the Union, I submit, is a starkly Euro-skeptic, or Anti-federalist, ideology th...

“No Loans” on Gun Sales: G.E. as Socially Responsible or Financially Savvy?

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In the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newton, Connecticut in late 2012, General Electric announced that the company would no l...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Karl Lagerfeld: An Artistic (and Marketing) Genius

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Weeks after Karl Lagerfeld’s death at 85 in February, 2019, I poured over interviews that the eternally-modern yet classic Renaissance man ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

As U.S. President, Was Obama Really Anti-Israel?

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In a poll in 2011, only 22% of Jewish voters in the U.S. said they approved of President Obama’s handling of Israel. Dan Senor pointed to ...
Monday, March 4, 2019

President Obama's Proposal to Rescue States: Unattended Problems in American Federalism and Human Sustenance

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In 2011, President Obama proposed "to ride to the rescue of states" that had borrowed billions of dollars from the federal govern...
Saturday, March 2, 2019

Improving the World Cup: A Matter of Thinking Outside the Goal

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Two things stood out for me in the wake of the World Cup of 2010: the sheer number of low-scoring games and the number of bad calls. The la...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Regulating Smoking in China: A Socialist Conflict of Interest

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Government ownership and control of a means of production is the standard definition of socialism   even if some linguistic revisionists w...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Transcending the United Methodist Vote to Retain Prohibitions on Gay Clergy and Weddings

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Delegates meeting at a special session of the General Conference of the United Methodist Church voted on February 26, 2019 to retain the de...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Public Access to the Public Domain Increasingly Privatized for Profit

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To Aaron Swartz, the subject of the documentary,  The Internet’s Own Boy  (2014), the major concern in his day regarding the internet was n...

In Pursuit of Money as God Incarnate

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The film  L’Argent  (1983) is about how far people will go to get money ( l’argent en francais ). One major problem with greed is that peop...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Bankers or the Bank: Which Is Responsible?

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Along with paying $2.6 billion to settle criminal and civil charges for having “failed, and failed miserably” to notify the SEC of warning ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Corporate Political-Campaign Contributions as Decisive in Anti-Trust Enforcement

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On August 31, 2011, “ the [U.S.] Justice Department sued to block AT&T’s $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA, a merger that would crea...

U.S. President Trump’s Spending on a Border Wall: Federalism at Risk?

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U.S. President Trump announced in February of 2019 that he would fully fund a wall on the U.S.’s southern border. He would first use the $1...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Anne Frank Remembered

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While studying at Yale, I took a seminar on documentaries following two other, more pertinent film courses on narrative itself. I even to...

Jesus' Teaching on Love beyond Morality in Human Relations: The film "Forsaken" Falls Short

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In an interview on the film, Forsaken (2015), Kiefer Sutherland remarks that the film is black and white in terms of the bad and the good ...